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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: impkin on January 17, 2013, 04:00 am

Title: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: impkin on January 17, 2013, 04:00 am
In an effort to be productive with my efforts to level-up, I'm starting a thread where we can suggest alternatives to the 50-post minimum rule that would still separate the spammers from the legit posters.  Post your ideas here.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: dreams189 on January 17, 2013, 04:04 am
I like this idea. I think a 20 or even 30 post minimum is more fair and would stop the spamming on the other forums.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: impkin on January 17, 2013, 04:04 am
PGP Club Call-and-response:  Newbies could send an encrypted message to a member of PGP Club, who would then give out a password for the newbie to level up out of Newbie Prison.  This would force newbies to learn PGP and stop the spammers cold.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: John F Kennedy on January 17, 2013, 04:06 am
It's hard for me to think of an alternative. I may be annoyed with it but I can't come up with better. lol
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: azuma on January 17, 2013, 04:10 am
I think i have figured out why i cant reply in other threads. :-[
As for alternatives to the min 50 rule, the pgp msg isnt that bad of an idea
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: dreams189 on January 17, 2013, 04:11 am
impkin - that is an interesting idea. Like you need to accomplish a few different tasks relating to security, the website, etc. It would probably be hard to implement though.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: impkin on January 17, 2013, 04:19 am
Or maybe a forum scavenger hunt full of obscure libertarian phrases and discarded bits of techno-geekery.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: financeguy on January 17, 2013, 04:34 am
More volunteer moderators or users can suspend posts for x time
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Shadowknight890 on January 17, 2013, 04:42 am
Maybe members can post their buyer stats to prove they are legit? That's not a bad idea.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: motek on January 17, 2013, 05:07 am
PGP Club Call-and-response:  Newbies could send an encrypted message to a member of PGP Club, who would then give out a password for the newbie to level up out of Newbie Prison.  This would force newbies to learn PGP and stop the spammers cold.

pgp isn't THAT hard   I doubt this would stop the average computer literate teenager trolling from their parents basement/attic/crawlspace  ::)


Maybe lowering it to 25 posts is better, the average troll is looking for the response, which they can 'try for' here in the noob forum, BUT they wont be able to go in and derail established threads with inane bullshit
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: galacticnomad on January 17, 2013, 05:12 am
I like impkin's first idea.

To be honest, I don't know why they decided on 50 posts as necessary to be released into the wild. What does 50 posts prove that requiring people to make only 10 posts in this board wouldn't? It will only make people more likely to spam?
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: CompSci on January 17, 2013, 05:15 am
How about using the date of registration? For example, if your account is older than one month you can post everywhere.

It's rather annoying that I can't post in a thread I STARTED due to this new limitation.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Dalmata on January 17, 2013, 06:29 am
I like impkin's first idea.

To be honest, I don't know why they decided on 50 posts as necessary to be released into the wild. What does 50 posts prove that requiring people to make only 10 posts in this board wouldn't? It will only make people more likely to spam?
Off the top of my head? because it selects for the more prolific spammers? Similar to antibiotic resistance... it kills off the weak spammers, leaving the hyperverbose and the trollish to survive.

I like impkin's first idea too.

Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: maybejustonce on January 17, 2013, 06:41 am
we should require pictures of our taints and strip the exif data
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: connoisseur on January 17, 2013, 06:43 am
How about using the date of registration? For example, if your account is older than one month you can post everywhere.

It's rather annoying that I can't post in a thread I STARTED due to this new limitation.

This makes sense
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: zerik on January 17, 2013, 07:02 am
Yea I think 20 posts would be good enough.

50 is a lot of nothing posts.

Having a task might be another way to go.

O well at least my post count will go up. Which I was seriously neglecting since I was using my time reading threads.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: garlow2000 on January 17, 2013, 07:06 am
I think impkins idea is great since it will help more newbies learn pgp which is only a good thing , would consume alot of other people time to confirm them though!
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: CompSci on January 17, 2013, 07:09 am
How about requiring newbies to supply a photocopy of their state issued ID and/or passport?

I kid.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: PineappleLove on January 17, 2013, 08:47 am
How about requiring newbies to supply a photocopy of their state issued ID and/or passport?

I kid.

Gosh I feel like such a spammer. I'd rather send my ID. /s
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: jackass2.0 on January 17, 2013, 08:53 am
plenty, but needs some more thinking.

so expect this to be in place for a while.

I saw a user posting pretty much only lab results, probably a throwaway. Hows he posting now? Well done SR!
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Sekt0r on January 17, 2013, 09:39 am
I only just started posting yesterday, was wondering why I suddenly couldn't...This will be fun for 50 posts..haha
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Norfolk83 on January 17, 2013, 09:52 am
abscond to BMR and hope some vendors follow us  :P
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: tally-ho on January 17, 2013, 10:13 am
just hope these threads arent blown away, then the post count goes back down!
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Norfolk83 on January 17, 2013, 10:23 am
SR admin put the crack pipe down and sort this shit out. Its causing the site to go slower than ever.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Robin on January 17, 2013, 10:24 am
Like someone previously pointed out, I think the post limit should be lowered to 20 or at least 25 posts per person to be able to post in other board categories.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Shamiroqai on January 17, 2013, 10:58 am
it's not so bad when you have a spam forum to get the 50 posts so no alternatives are needed imo.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: kola_nutz on January 19, 2013, 01:25 am
bump, definitely need a lower msg quota for peeps to post in the regular forums...
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Raichu67 on January 19, 2013, 03:32 am
I mentioned elsewhere that a bond system, like vendors have to sue would be great. Once you get to 50, your money comes back. Easy peasy.
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: camomug on January 25, 2013, 06:19 pm
Is this why I can no longer post in any other forum? I'm more of a lurker on the forums, but been on SR purchasing for > a year.  So now I need to spam post to 50 in order to continue using these forums?
Quite shitty to say the least
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: Haizenberg on January 25, 2013, 06:23 pm
i think 50 posts is fair , its hard enough on everybody , but then just as reasonable enough to limit unwanted people
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: xannie on May 05, 2013, 06:24 am
i think they should lower the minimum to 20... 50 posts causes too many spams
Title: Re: Alternatives to minimum post
Post by: MrGardener on May 05, 2013, 11:08 am
One of more options can be linkage to trustworthy buyer/vendor profile on SR